Light x dark Brahma, auto sexing???

[Party_Chicken]

Hey guys! I just grabbed some chicks from a woman on facebook and I realized a little to late the light Brahma I grabbed was a cockerel. I have a 14 week old dark Brahma pullet and I’m wondering what would happen if I crossed them? I saw a post and from what I gathered the mixes auto-sex? Correct me if I’m wrong but the cockerels would have the lighter color with some feather irregularities and the pullet would have the dark Brahma look with sloppier penciling. Thanks in advance!

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Hey guys! I just grabbed some chicks from a woman on facebook and I realized a little to late the light Brahma I grabbed was a cockerel. I have a 14 week old dark Brahma pullet and I’m wondering what would happen if I crossed them? I saw a post and from what I gathered the mixes auto-sex? Correct me if I’m wrong but the cockerels would have the lighter color with some feather irregularities and the pullet would have the dark Brahma look with sloppier penciling. Thanks in advance!

I’m not sure but interested to see what people say. You can always learn something!

 

[Rose the Legbar]

@NatJ

 

[Amer]

No, they are not sexlinked, and autosexing is specific to a few true beeeding varieties.
The chicks will all be silver columbian (Light color) with a little sloppy pencilling on top as well.
Of course the females would look different from the males, having pencilling while the males do not, but that is because of sexual dimorphism, not sexlinkage.

 

[Party_Chicken]

No, they are not sexlinked, and autosexing is specific to a few true beeeding varieties.
The chicks will all be silver columbian (Light color) with a little sloppy pencilling on top as well.
Of course the females would look different from the males, having pencilling while the males do not, but that is because of sexual dimorphism, not sexlinkage.

Thank you, are there any other benefits of crossing them that you can think of? I have a lot of roosters right now and it’ll be a headache removing them.

 

[Amer]

No

 

[Party_Chicken]

No

Okay

 

[NatJ]

@NatJ

I see that @Amer already answered by the time I saw the tag.
I do not have anything to add to that answer.